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The Municipal Archive is a general and transversal service of the Municipal Administration. Its functions include the systematisation of the documentary management of the Town Hall and the collection, organisation, dissemination and conservation of the documents generated by the municipal administration in any format, both digital and analogue, as well as the collection of funds from neighbours and institutions that may be of relevant interest to the history of the municipality.

The obligation for municipalities to keep their documents comes from the time of the Catholic Monarchs and their Royal Pragmatics of 1500 and 1501, which established that documents should be kept in "the ark of privileges". Since then, the municipalities have fulfilled this function.

Traditionally, the documentary collections of the Town Hall were kept in the Town Hall building under the custody of the Secretary General, and this was the case in Alcorcón. Unfortunately, in 1877, the Town Hall building collapsed and it seems that all the documents were lost. From 1877 to 1940 hardly any documents were preserved, since according to a document the Municipal Archive was destroyed during the Civil War. The documents generated by the Town Hall were kept in the attic of the building constructed in 1973. Subsequently, they were moved outside the building and returned to the Town Hall in 1989. At present, the offices and two storage rooms are located in the Nejapa Building, a storage room in Avenida de Lisboa and an Intermediate Archive in the Town Hall. Since 1984 the Archive has had qualified staff. And in 1993 the Archive and Documentation Section was created, depending on the Department of Human Resources and Quality of Services. The Regulations of the Municipal Archive approved in the Plenary Session of 31 January 1996 give custody to the Head of the Archive and Documentation Section.

The Municipal Archive is also a founding member of the Group of Archivists of the Community of Madrid (GAMM) and of the Local Administration Working Group.

What you can find

The Municipal Archive has approximately 21,000 archive boxes, 4 planners, 800 record books, 500 magnetic tapes, 50 DVDs and 300,000 images of photographs and digitised documents, which cover all the steps that have been taken in the Town Hall from 1878 to 2017. For this reason, its documents cover practically all areas of the life of the citizens of Alcorcón.

You can find projects of almost all the buildings in Alcorcón, shops and leisure centres, schools, cultural centres..., all the posters, announcements and communiqués issued by the Town Hall, photographs of various events and of the municipality, population registers, tax records, municipal budgets, documents on health, education, the environment, festivities, minutes of plenary sessions...

Further information can be obtained by consulting the Municipal Archives Classification Table.

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What you can find

The Municipal Archive has approximately 21,000 archive boxes, 4 planners, 800 record books, 500 magnetic tapes, 50 DVDs and 300,000 images of photographs and digitised documents, which cover all the steps that have been taken in the Town Hall from 1878 to 2017. For this reason, its documents cover practically all areas of the life of the citizens of Alcorcón.

You can find projects of almost all the buildings in Alcorcón, shops and leisure centres, schools, cultural centres..., all the posters, announcements and communiqués issued by the Town Hall, photographs of various events and of the municipality, population registers, tax records, municipal budgets, documents on health, education, the environment, festivities, minutes of plenary sessions...

Further information can be obtained by consulting the Municipal Archives Classification Table.

What you can find

The Municipal Archive has approximately 21,000 archive boxes, 4 planners, 800 record books, 500 magnetic tapes, 50 DVDs and 300,000 images of photographs and digitised documents, which cover all the steps that have been taken in the Town Hall from 1878 to 2017. For this reason, its documents cover practically all areas of the life of the citizens of Alcorcón.

You can find projects of almost all the buildings in Alcorcón, shops and leisure centres, schools, cultural centres..., all the posters, announcements and communiqués issued by the Town Hall, photographs of various events and of the municipality, population registers, tax records, municipal budgets, documents on health, education, the environment, festivities, minutes of plenary sessions...

Further information can be obtained by consulting the Municipal Archives Classification Table.